Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pers pn] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My rose-growing Surrey headmaster ( by now retired ) came to Banbury for a weekend , and as we drove off to the Cotswolds he tried to persuade me that the implication of all this was that secondary schools would no longer be a worthwhile place for teachers with academic interests : all the good work would hereafter be done within an inflated system of higher education . |
| 2 | In the end the Middlesex authorities asked Andrew to leave — so many show people like Ken and Diana Dors came to see him that the noise along the corridors was unbearable . |
| 3 | " What if I 'd told him that the Avignon was carrying a young man named Charles Sherman who 's destined one day maybe to become the President of the United States ? " |
| 4 | The perceived attitudes of teachers seemed to convince them that the school system was ‘ rigged ’ : some saw very little point in trying . |
| 5 | One day Johann came to tell us that the King was now very sick , and that Antoinette de Mauban and a doctor were looking after him . |
| 6 | A DESPATCH from Rome in Thursday 's newspaper seemed to tell us that the Pope has been urging sex education for priests . |
| 7 | The new lands he discovered convinced him that the earth was not round but pear-shaped . |
| 8 | But over time Mr Premadasa 's approach to the problem changed : foreign pressure and the failure of the military solution to terrorism combined to persuade him that the army needed to be discouraged from indiscriminate killing . |
| 9 | As soon as you deigned to tell me that the Svend you were looking for was a student , and that he 'd used my home as a hotel , I recalled that my nephew spent a night here shortly after I moved in so that he could attend a lecture at the city university , and that I 'd entrusted him with a spare key so he could come and go as he pleased . ’ |
| 10 | I can not truthfully say that my work experience directly influenced my ambitions career wise but it did show me that the music business is not about ‘ Top of the Pops ’ but about a day 's work to be proud of . |
| 11 | Later , however , I did tell him that the meeting had been a disaster and that if he thought it had mollified the press in any way he was greatly mistaken . |
| 12 | Tolkien had taught him that the inability to believe in Christianity was primarily a failure of the imagination . |
| 13 | Salome Search 's three years at R.A.D.A. had taught her that the pause before a sensational line can be extended almost infinitely . |
| 14 | Their mother had hated the very thought of anything that could lessen the love between her and Dana , and she had taught her that the bond between them was only imagination on Claudia 's part . |
| 15 | The gallant compliments of the captain and his officers particularly had reminded her that the beauty so widely admired in her youth had not yet faded . |
| 16 | He told me that his wife had left him and she had told him that the baby she was carrying was not his . ’ |
| 17 | That was an unwise decision ; for already the leaders of the Opposition parties had told him that the Cabinet 's latest financial proposals were ‘ wholly unsatisfactory ’ , and had suggested that he should consult the King . |
| 18 | Svend Larsen had told him that the farm was becoming vacant and had offered to negotiate for it on the Colonel 's behalf , the islanders not wanting incomers to buy up farms for weekend occupation only . |
| 19 | He said council officers had told them that the repair bill per flat would cost in the region of £5,000 , whereas it would cost about £40,000 to build new homes . |
| 20 | Nell had said she would meet me this Sunday morning in the coffee shop in the Great Hall , and had told me that the crews often went there to wait for train time . |
| 21 | Of course I knew the path led to the Camus na Dobhrain , and the lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , so I wondered why he was headed there . |
| 22 | The lawyers had told me that the cottage was let to a girl , who was here alone . |
| 23 | The King 's officials had told me that the Princess was very popular , and the people hoped that she would become my wife . |
| 24 | Frank had accused me before of ‘ messing up ’ the relay , and had told me that the rest of the team were of the same opinion . |
| 25 | And Archie McLaren had told me that the house would probably have to be sold , so it was to be supposed that at any time now people might be coming to look at it . |
| 26 | Maureen had told her that the O'Neills ' neighbour had been in the wool shop and had told her that she was sure they were all mad . |
| 27 | She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before . |
| 28 | Mahoney had told her that the lodge had been built on the site of a demolished cromlech , a tower erected for the worship of native Irish Gods . |
| 29 | One of her students , for instance , had told her that the class struggle was an obsolete concept , and an eminent academic had put forward the view that relations between capitalist and socialist states were devoid of class content ( he had previously maintained the opposite ) . |
| 30 | Inspector Blakelock , she remembered , had told her that the Laboratory refrigerator had once held a whole head . |